About
Comes on the fourth day after the pathfinder's people are brought. Works alone from a ground-floor room with a table and a window onto the car park, and takes fifteen days over it. Examines the route corpus and Sarah's forty-one pages by paper first — which instrument, which hour, which hand, who else was in the compartment — then by separate interview of each person named in it. On the fifteenth day the corpus and Shaw's independently worked station set are laid out on one table by a third person and Sarah is asked in at the end and not before. His method is the book's argument made procedural: two records that share no instrument, no clock and no writer.
Comes on the fourth day after the pathfinder's people are brought. Works alone from a ground-floor room with a table and a window onto the car park, and takes fifteen days over it. Examines the route corpus and Sarah's forty-one pages by paper first — which instrument, which hour, which hand, who else was in the compartment — then by separate interview of each person named in it. On the fifteenth day the corpus and Shaw's independently worked station set are laid out on one table by a third person and Sarah is asked in at the end and not before. His method is the book's argument made procedural: two records that share no instrument, no clock and no writer. He accepts [Ngo
How they speak
Flat, unhurried, entirely non-ceremonial. Asks one question at a time and waits. States what a document is before what it means. Writes everything in his own book and asks for spellings. Corrects nobody. His single physical tell in landed prose is looking for his tea and finding it cold.